feculence

• I had long since lost all olfactory sensitivity to my own feculence, but I could sympathize with them. —  CATCH ME IF YOU CAN - FRANK ABAGNALE JR.
• On issuing from the Portico, we pass a large fountain, in which the gold fish keep studiously at the bottom of the water, while the restless dragon-fly (who finds the glittering shell-work too hot to hold him) is as studiously skimming backwards and forwards over the surface, to cool and refresh himself; and the frogs, in a neighboring tank, while conjugal duties keep them also on the top, feebly croak as they float with their wives among the green feculence, and make love behind the bulrushes. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
• A cloud, looked at as a cloud only, is no more a subject for painting than so much feculence in dirty water. —  Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871
• It is not amiss that some feculence lie thick upon the Ale, and work not all out; for that will keep in the spirits. —  The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
• So wrote the charming Cowper, giving us to understand, by the drift of the context, that he intended the remark as having a moral as well as a physical application; since, as he there intimates, in "gain-devoted cities," whither naturally flow "the dregs and feculence of every land," and where "foul example in most minds begets its likeness," the vices will ever find their favorite haunts; while the virtues, on the contrary, will always most abound in the country. —  Gaut Gurley

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